Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) – The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced demonstration in divisional cities, including capital and district headquarters on Monday in protest against the government’s ‘repression and police attack’ on opposition which left two people killed on Sunday.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the program at a press briefing at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office in the capital Dhaka on Sunday night.
BNP’s Victory Day rally scheduled for Monday in Dhaka will be turned into a protest procession, Mr. Alamgir said, adding that the protest procession will be taken out from the party’s central office at Nayapaltan at 3-30 pm (local time).
He also said the demonstrations have been designed to protest the government’s oppression on BNP, attack on the opposition, the bomb attack and the killings of activists.
Two people including BNP activist Arifuzzaman were killed in capital and Sylhet on Sunday, he alleged.
BBN/SSR/AD-18Dec11-11:26 pm (BST)
